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Student services are defined in UW System Administrative Policy 822, Student Services Funding<\/em><\/a>: “Student services represent the many educational activities which contribute to a student’s overall learning experience.” The National Association of College and University Business Officers [NACUBO] defines student services as “…activities with the primary purpose of contributing to the student’s emotional and physical well-being and to his or her intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instruction program.”<\/p>\n Student services include expenditures for student activities, cultural events, student newspapers, intramural athletics, student organizations, intercollegiate athletics, counseling and career guidance, student aid administration, and student health services. Within the content of that definition, for example, falls such activities as recruitment and retention of students, a function many Campus Early Education and Care Centers (Campus Centers) fulfill by providing a service essential for student-parents’ university attendance.<\/p>\n In functioning as a student service for both Universities of Wisconsin student-parents and nonparent students, children’s centers may provide services such as:<\/p>\n NACUBO defines instruction as including “all activities that are part of an instructional program.” Expenditures for credit courses; academic, vocational and technical instruction; remedial and tutorial instruction; and extension courses are included. It also includes “expenditures made toward service for the institution’s primary missions: instruction, research, and public service.”<\/p>\n Instruction\/academic support includes support for course and curriculum development and activities that provide a mechanism for students to gain practical experience. At many universities, Campus Centers serve as sites for instruction and\/or academic support. Qualified, state-licensed Campus Center staff serve as course instructors, internship supervisors, and supervisors of other practicum experiences which are part of students’ degree requirements.<\/p>\n Other instructional\/academic support use of Campus Centers includes activities such as:<\/p>\n NACUBO defines research as “…activities specifically organized to produce research…The category includes individual and\/or project research as well as that of institutes and research centers.”<\/p>\n In the case of Campus Centers, research is conducted on child development, improvements in early childhood education, and\/or improved teaching methods, as well as on a wide range of additional topics. Some of the Universities of Wisconsin Campus Centers that serve as research sites maintain waiting lists of researchers. Faculty and graduate and undergraduate students use the centers for research activities such as:<\/p>\n Representative examples of academic departmental use and some types of completed or on-going projects include: child development (parent-child interaction); early childhood education (comparison of curriculum models); architecture (effectiveness of visual cues in guiding traffic patterns); music; theatre; art; nursing; nutrition; kinesiology (normal motor development); communicative disorders (children’s interpersonal communication); communication arts; educational psychology (mainstreaming special needs children; integration of new children into classroom); interdisciplinary\/multicultural programs.<\/p>\n NACUBO defines public service as activities established primarily to provide noninstructional services benefitting individuals and groups external to the Universities of Wisconsin including community service programs and cooperative service programs. It also includes advisory services, reference bureaus, consulting, conferences, and similar services to particular sectors of the community.<\/p>\n Most UW Children’s Centers and staff members provide public service in a manner similar to that provided by members of an academic department. Public service, or “outreach,” along with teaching and research, is part of the traditional triad of responsibilities for university faculty and academic staff. Often, Campus Centers in the Universities of Wisconsin System establish quantifiable goals and requirements in public service for staff members. Campus Centers sometimes require public service work as part-of-load for academic staff members. Examples of public service and outreach work include:<\/p>\n NACUBO defines institutional support as “expenditures for central executive-level activities concerned with management and long-range planning for the entire institution, such as…support services to faculty and staff that are not operated as an auxiliary enterprise….” Appendix 2 of UW System Administrative Policy 316,\u00a0University of Wisconsin System Institutional Support Functional Definition Uniform Chart of Accounts<\/em><\/a> includes as institutional support such activities as recruitment of faculty and staff and services in support of alumni and community relations.<\/p>\n The Campus Centers provide additional support that benefits the university at large. Such services include:<\/p>\n Many Campus Centers choose to encourage a certain percentage of faculty and staff usage, since these parents normally use full-day and often full-year services, thus providing one source of stable funding which is useful in balancing more expensive flexible-hours care for student parents, more expensive care for very young children, and the other activities of the centers.<\/p>\n All Campus Center directors and <\/span>administrator<\/span> shall work collaboratively to ensure that a sustainable business plan is develope<\/span><\/span><\/span>d and implemented, ensuring <\/span>timely<\/span> and ongoing planning, discussion, and fund allocation.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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F. Auxiliary Enterprises<\/h2>\n